This article was originally published as part of the Friday File for members of the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars on October 8. We’re opening it up to all readers now, but it has not been updated since it was first posted a month ago. There has not been a huge amount of news from the company […]
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Travis Johnson is an individual investor who founded Stock Gumshoe in 2007 as a way to air his dissections of overhyped marketing pitches... and to share the "secret" stocks that stock newsletters hype to get your attention and your subscription dollars. His thinking? If you already know what the "secret" stock is, you can make a much more reasonable and thoughtful decision about whether or not to commit to an expensive newsletter subscription. (And if you don't pay for the info, you'll be more free to think for yourself about whether or not the investment is worth your money.)In his charmed life he has been, among other things, a university faculty member, a fundraiser, a writer, and a world-champion ice-cream scooper. Now he runs Stock Gumshoe for you, allowing us all to discuss and dissect the latest overheated stock ideas... as well as review and talk about investment newsletters and enjoy the commentary and opinions of Stock Gumshoe's other special contributors and the discussion with our unusually attractive, erudite and polite readers. He lives with Mrs. Gumshoe and all their little Gumshoes in the wilds of Western Massachusetts.
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November 9, 2021
What’s Kohl’s “Intel of quantum computing”?
Keith Kohl is selling his Topline Trader service, which is a weekly trading advisory, by using the promise of a “next Intel” investment in the early stages of the quantum computing era. Topline Trader used to be sold as a trading service that bets on biotech catalyst events, but I guess they’ve branched out. It’s […]
November 9, 2021
Topline Trader
Biotech-focused newsletter that does short-term trading — from their website: “Our strategy here at Topline Trader is simple: Identity major catalyst events in drug development, and position ourselves to profit handsomely from the wild price swings that follow.”
November 8, 2021
Marijuana Profit Alert
New marijuana-focused service launched in late 2022, recommends stock and option trades to bet on the growth of the sector as legalization spreads.
November 5, 2021
Friday File: One Sell, Five Buys as Earnings Season Steams Ahead
Last weekend I was on an airplane for the first time since March of 2020, thanks to a family wedding, so I got a personal experience with a couple trends that we’re hearing from other people: First, travel is back in a huge way, every flight is completely full, and many airports are even more […]
November 3, 2021
Will the Apple Car mean “R.I.P. Tesla” on November 19?
Jeff Brown’s latest pitch about an “Apple Car” is similar to stories that have made the rounds several times over the past five years, teasing companies from Tesla to Magna International as potential partners for this secretive project to put four wheels on an iPhone and take over the world. Here’s a little taste, it […]
November 1, 2021
What’s “Tom Gardner’s Double Down Stock?”
This one’s going to sound a little familiar, but we’ll give it a quick once-over for the folks who haven’t been aboard the good ship Gumshoe for long. The Motley Fool is pitching their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter with a pitch about a company that they think might become a “hall of fame” investment like […]
October 28, 2021
Friday File: Earningspalooza Gets Underway (plus a teaser preview)
This is the meat of earnings season for my holdings, so I’ve got a lot of fairly minor updates for you today in this one-day-early Friday File (OK, call it a Thursday File… sorry for the schedule change, but I’m traveling to Las Vegas, the Land of Good Choices, for a wedding this weekend, and […]
October 27, 2021
Solved: Empire’s “Most Obvious 10X Opportunity I’ve Seen” Pitch
Crypto stories are running hot and heavy once again, as Bitcoin and Ethereum have recovered to make new highs in recent weeks after a big slump midyear (OK, Ethereum is not quite at new highs — but it’s close)… and whenever that happens in a sector, we know the newsletter sales pitches will follow. This […]
October 26, 2021
De-Teasing Dave Forest’s “Amazon Warrants” Pitch
Dave Forest at Casey Research is selling his Strategic Trader newsletter ($1,750, no refunds) by promising new subscribers a report about how to profit from the warrant windfalls that Jeff Bezos has engineered for Amazon.com (AMZN). This ad presentation takes the form of an “interview” with Chris Hurt, a Disney-trained host who may look familiar […]
October 22, 2021
Friday File: Trump Media, Cloudflare, GAN, Match and more…
I’ve had several readers ask me about the Trump Media deal, which is an announced plan to take a new company, Trump Media & Technology, public through a merger with a SPAC called Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC). It has generated a lot of attention for sure, and the stock price has soared, but so […]
Today we have a very brief pitch to look at — it’s a teaser for a “webinar” that Ian Wyatt will be hosting, all about “Supercharged Payouts”, and the webinar hasn’t happened yet (it’s scheduled for October 21 at Noon), but we can give you a little background… and tell you which stock he’s almost […]
Ray Blanco is flogging his entry-level newsletter, Technology Profits Confidential ($79/yr), by pitching a theme he calls BESS, which he says is “The #1 Ground Floor Opportunity in the World” — the acronym stands for “Battery Energy Storage Systems,” and that’s certainly an area of great interest, so let’s dig in and see what he’s […]
I thought we’d start out today with a quick teaser solution — Altimetry, one of the Stansberry/MarketWise publishers, is selling Joel Litman’s Microcap Confidential for $2,000 (“on sale” from $5,000, naturally, no refunds), and they’re doing so by hinting at a high-potential buy… here’s the intro: “Forensic Accountant who’s been followed by the Top 10 […]
October 15, 2021
Microcap Confidential
Upgrade newsletter that uses Altimetry’s “Universal Accounting” adjustments to try to identify very small companies with under-appreciated financials and growth potential.
October 14, 2021
What’s Basenese’s “PGB” Stock? Thinkolator Answers Coming Your Way…
The intro to the latest ad from Lou Basenese has it all — tiny company, huge opportunity, mysterious name, and deadline, just about all you need to get readers fired up to pull out their credit card. Here’s his wording: “Buy ‘PGB’ Now! “One tiny cokmpany is on track to dominate a $228 billion market… […]
October 12, 2021
What’s Stansberry teasing as “America’s New Energy?”
Brian Tycango, who joined Stansberry a few years ago after recommending mostly Asian stocks for a long time in his own newsletter, is launching a service called Visionary Investor with teaser ads that are getting the attention of Gumshoe readers in recent days. At $49/yr, this is positioned as another “entry level” growth-focused newsletter, in […]
October 12, 2021
Visionary Investor
Entry-level technology-focused newsletter from Tycango, aims to identify stocks related to major technology trends.
October 8, 2021
Friday File Part 1: Fire, Tech, and “Too Big to Grow”
Your Friday File is in two parts today, this piece includes updates on half a dozen or so of the companies in the Real Money Portfolio, including a few add-on buys and some other little tidbits of note… and part two is a teaser solution, which also happened to lead in to a new purchase […]
October 6, 2021
What’s Teeka’s Secret “Deal #12” Pre-IPO pitch all about?
Teeka Tiwari has a big teaser pitch out right now for “Deal #12”, which is launching with a presentation tonight (8pm EST, October 6), and will presumably lead into a sales pitch for his Palm Beach Venture newsletter (which has a list price of $5,000/yr, though those letters are never promoted at full price) — […]
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Thanks for acknowledging my noble sacrifice :)[...]
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We love you, too, David. Thanks![...]
Posted on September 18, 2024
Thanks! Glad to have you here, stick around and tell all your friends :)[...]
Posted on September 18, 2024
Pretty low, I think, which is why I sold the $10 options to reduce the cost of the $2 ones to roughly "in the money" levels.[...]
Posted on September 17, 2024
Thanks... guess they're not promoting Scheidt as much as the old Agora did.[...]
Posted on September 17, 2024
Thanks for the confirmation... and the GDOT news, which I guess he must be teasing for a different letter.I know some of the Paradigm folks don't really get into individual stock picking, like Jim Rickards, but didn't know Zachary Scheidt was one of the[...]
Posted on September 16, 2024
He's been running with that one since the Spring of 2023 (https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/the-big-secret-on-wall-street-this-week/de-tease-porters-secret-energy-grid-obamas-screw-up-and-reagans-premonition/), but yes, the ads continue to roll teasing [...]
Posted on September 16, 2024
Will take a look, but that sounds a lot like New Found Gold, which Williams' colleague Luke Burgess was pitching a while[...]
Posted on September 16, 2024
That's a different type of firm -- more of a commodity trading company, right? Interesting call, sort of a play on the interest in gold rather than the gold price itself.[...]
Posted on September 14, 2024
That one has certainly demanded some patience. I remain somewhat assured that Nolan Watson has been saying that they've already bought their growth, so they'll likely just be paying down debt and holding off on major deals for a while... but there's alway[...]
Posted on September 11, 2024
Several SMRs are in early stage development, none of the US ones are permitted or under construction yet. BWXT works on most of the naval reactors and does other nuclear contracting for the government, including building a microreactor for military bases,[...]
Posted on September 11, 2024
Could be, a lot of the smaller defense contractors have been acquired over the years. Don't know if any of their technology is particularly valuable or proprietary, but they are doing some interesting things with rocket engines and other stuff in addition[...]
Posted on September 10, 2024
Indeed, that's certainly the flavor of the month... there won't really be any SMRs in operation for five years or so, though, even if they proceed without hiccups it will take quite a while for them to be meaningful contributors to the grid.[...]
Posted on September 10, 2024
It wasn't the permit that drove it up to $8, it's been moving up pretty steadily for a few months -- they just didn't bother to update their ad.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
I imagine a lot of folks still doubt the permitting will come through, so maybe that doubt will ease over the next 6 months or so. But investors often find it hard to hold on to mining stocks once it gets "real" -- when they're borrowing and spending and[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Could be, though if they can really borrow $1.8 billion and the terms are friendly enough, they could perhaps go it alone. I hope it works out for you in the end, either way.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Yep, a 12,500% return would mean it grows to a $63 billion market cap. I guess it's theoretically possible someday... but no.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
I think Apple has used ARM's basic chip design tech every since they designed their first chips. Whether they're using "more" of it for this latest chip, or ARM is more involved in Apple's chip design for this one than usual, I have no idea, but the big d[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Apple has acquired several voice-enabling technologies over the years, but if they haven't used SOUN to this point it seems unlikely that they need to -- it seems like auto companies are partnering with SOUN so they can avoid having to be captive to Apple [...]
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I'm sure this isn't what you want to hear, but that stock is so dramatically over-followed that there aren't really any cost-effective ways to trade it -- you can buy puts or calls to bet on huge changes of direction, but so many people are already doing t[...]